put up a front

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"Convention meant that in this kind of situation you put up a front and just kept going, " she said.
「传统上，在这种情况下，妳只能故作坚强继续撑下去」，她说。
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Robert Gates, America’s defence secretary, complained about petulant rebuffs from China, which at the time put up a cold front.
美国国防部长罗伯特•盖茨抱怨中国面对各种议题动不动就断然拒绝，为会议带来一股冷锋。
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For example, Rwanda’s genocide and civil strife might have met a firmer response if the French- and English-speaking worlds had put up a united front, instead of seeming to compete by proxy.
例如，若讲英语国家与法语世界不通过代理人相争，而是达成一致的话，那么会对卢旺达大屠杀与社会冲突做出更有力的反应。

You sign up for your human subjects requirement they put you in front of a computer screen and then they tell you, "Oh, just sit in front of the computer screen " and then we'll ask you some questions."
你报名参加人体被试实验,然后他们会让你坐在电脑前，and，then，you—,给你指导语，“请坐在电脑屏幕前面,屏幕上会显示一些要求你回答的问题“
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"I think they need to put up a common front, " says Arvind Subramanian, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.
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